In the Tianshan Mountains in autumn, thick fog began to rise in the early morning. Mr. Li and Li Ye got up early to cook porridge.
In the thick fog, I cut down a lot of moso bamboo and dragged it back to the cliff platform outside the cave. My husband lit a fire and used it to bake the cut bamboo slices to make stools.
While they were roasting, the husband said, "Can you memorize the Ksitigarbha Sutra in its entirety?"
Li Ye nodded and said, "It's word for word, you can memorize it."
The gentleman nodded and said, "Don't you just want to practice swordsmanship? From now on, don't worry about these trivial matters and just concentrate on practicing."
Seeing Li Ye's puzzled look, the gentleman bent the bamboo piece in his hand.
Said: "Use the sword in your hand to carve the "Ksitigarbha Sutra" completely on the wall of this stone cliff. Every stroke and every word must have the same depth, the same size, and the same font. ."
"I'll make a bamboo frame for you first. If you can't reach the high stone wall, just climb up the frame and carve. Let's start carving on the stone wall next to the ground."
When Li Ye heard this, he was stunned and asked: "Sir, what does this scripture have to do with practicing swordsmanship?"
The teacher put down the bamboo in his hand, looked at Li Ye's confused look, and said patiently: "It's the same principle as your practice of the Formless Dharma Body. Your Dharma Body must be cultivated to the point where it has form but no form, and has no missing parts."
"Is there a relationship between the two?" Li Ye looked at Mr. with some confusion.
The teacher ignored him and continued to teach: "Just like eating and drinking, there are certain skills in drawing a sword."
"And for an excellent swordsman, the sword is a part of his body. Think about it, every sword you swing has the same strength, and the moves are all full of moves, missing and missing. Who can defeat a swordsman without flaws? you?"
After saying these words, the gentleman continued to lower his head and bake the bamboo slices in his hands, bending them gently.
After listening to his husband's words, Li Ye lowered his head and thought for a moment.
After realizing something, he stood up, took out his long sword, and left the cabin.
Standing on the stone platform near the edge of the cliff, looking at the distant mountain peaks, Li Ye gathered his energy and slowly swung the iron sword in his hand, as if the sword weighed a thousand kilograms, without any moves, towards the outside of the cliff. Pine Forest slowly slashed out a sword.
This sword has no white light, no sword shadow, and no sound. It is just an ordinary sword.
After condensing all the energy in his body to strike out with this sword, Li Shen turned around and walked back to the entrance of the cave without looking. He wanted to carve the first word of the scripture on the stone wall.
The gentleman was stunned, then stood up, walked to the edge of the cliff, and looked in the direction where Li Ye slashed his sword.
I saw a cedar tree ten feet away slowly falling down and being chopped off at the waist by Li Ye's sword.
The gentleman looked at Li Ye as if he were a monster, walked behind Ye, and looked at him holding the sword. He laughed angrily, hit Li Ye's hand hard with the bamboo branch in his hand, and said in writing: "You Are you holding a sword? Or are you holding chopsticks?"
Li Ye looked at the gentleman with a grimace and said, "Sir, this won't work. It's not like using a jade carving knife, but using a sword to carve scriptures on this stone wall, it won't be very powerful."
The teacher looked at Li Ye with disgust and said, "If this is easy to engrave, do you still want to use this to practice swordsmanship?"
After saying that, he pressed the sword in Li Ye's hand, and with luck in his arm, he waved the tip of the sword. In less than a quarter of an hour, a line of words was carved on the smooth stone wall: The Supreme and Deep Subtle Dharma.
The teacher carved the first sentence of the Sutra, threw the sword to Li Ye, and said: "Condensate the true energy, run the "Phaseless Dharma Body", condense the true energy of the body into a point, gather it at the tip of the sword, and control the arm, take it easy."
Li Ye nodded, looked at Mr., and said inexplicably: "Sir, I seemed to have broken through the second level of the "Formless Dharmakaya" just now, and now I can practice the third level."
The gentleman was still thinking about the sword that Li Ye had just struck. When he heard what he said, he immediately understood.
"Practice your sword skills first, rest for a few days, and then we go to collect herbs. There are many herbs on Tianshan Mountain, which are enough for you to temper your body."
After saying that, he put his hands behind his back and went to knit his bamboo chair in front of the wooden house without looking back.
Li Ye held the sword and wanted to carve words on the stone wall, but he couldn't use any force. In desperation, he used all his strength and could only carve a shallow stroke on the stone wall, which was really ugly.
I tried several times, but I still couldn't find a way to focus on the tip of the sword. If I couldn't focus on one point, I couldn't carve the strokes I wanted on the stone wall.
In a fit of anger, he threw his sword to the ground, turned around, and ran outside the wooden house. With luck, he started to fight his "Fuhuhu Luohan Fist".
Take a quiet breath, lie on your back on the ground, bend your forearms so that your fists are facing up, press your soles against the ground, and straighten your legs.
Then use the force on both elbows to touch the ground, so that the whole body is lifted up. Except for the elbows and soles that touch the ground, the rest are in the air. After rising for a while, they fall flat and rest...
After a while, a whirlwind blew up from the edge of the stone cliff. Following Li Ye's fist, the autumn wind swept the fallen leaves into a ball around him, like a huge silkworm cocoon. There was also a white cyclone rotating above his head. Coming faster and bigger...
Seeing Li Yelian's enthusiasm, the husband simply made room for him, carried the roasted bamboos, and went into the wooden house to weave his recliner. He thought to himself: I asked you to practice swordsmanship, but you started boxing for me.
With the blessing of the third layer of "Phaseless Dharmakaya", Li Ye's Arhat punches were more fierce than usual. He used force on his feet and hands, but in his heart he was thinking about what his teacher said about gathering energy at one point.
I hit it once, but I couldn't find a clue in my mind. Then I started to use the hand gestures for the second time. The punching force I found did not weaken at all, and became more and more concentrated. When I hit it for the third time, my palms became hot, and suddenly there was a The hot air gathers along the three yang meridians of the hand, seems to condense like silk, and rushes towards the fist.
Li Ye, who was excited about the fight, rushed towards the pine forest on the edge of the cliff like a whirlwind. He moved down the mountain with a tiger move and punched a cedar as thick as a person.
I saw where the fist hit, the cedar shook violently, as if it was about to break away. The loud sound startled the birds in the forest to rise into the sky. They looked at Li Ye in surprise, wondering if the owner who fed him rice was crazy?
When his fist was exhausted, Li Ye also stopped his fist and stopped. Looking at Xuesong who had been punched by him, Li Ye was stunned. The cedar tree was still standing there intact, but where Li Ye put his fist, a hole was made for him.
The size of the tree hole was about the same as Li Ye's fist. Not far from the tree, there were tree debris on the ground, which seemed to prove the power of the punch just now.
Hearing the loud noise, the gentleman stopped knitting and walked out.
Looking at Li Ye who was in a daze under the cedar, Mr. walked closer and stroked the tree hole on the cedar, laughed loudly, and said: "Not bad, not bad, you have created two miracles today. If you understand it carefully, maybe you can condense your energy at one point." ”
After saying that, he patted Li Ye on the shoulder and naturally went back to the house to make up his recliner.
If Li Ye had mastered Fuhu Luohan Fist, which he practiced at the Great Buddha Temple, it would only be like a man's fist. It only has strength and moves, but is not fatal.
Only by condensing the true energy just now and concentrating the three yang meridians in the hand at one point, and the power of the punch that passes through the cedar, is the real power of Fuhu Luohan Fist.
After thinking for a while under the tree, Li Ye returned to the stone wall next to the cave, picked up the long sword, and recalled the feeling of Li Ju Quan just now, and began to use the "Shadowless Body Technique" and Fuhu Luohan Fist. , slowly began to carve on the ground.
Since my practice is not yet able to carve words on the stone wall, I will practice on the ground first.
Carving words on the ground uses downward force, which is easier than carving words on a stone wall. After a while, he followed the teacher's words on the stone wall crookedly and carved out a line: The Supreme and Deep Subtle Dharma.
Looking left and right, it was really ugly. I sighed, dropped my sword, and went back to the wooden house to watch my husband weave bamboo chairs.
I watched the husband work for a while, and the frame of a deck chair had been woven. A pair of hands deftly broke the bamboo strips, roasted them on the fire, and entangled them together. I thought that I could lie here in two days. Look at the moon.
After watching for a while, he took the bucket and got up to fetch water from the cave. After practicing for a long time, my husband and I were very thirsty, so we had to make tea to quench our thirst.
When Li Ye came back from fetching water, the gentleman had put down the bamboo work in his hands, set a copper kettle on the fire, took the bucket and added it to the pot. Li Ye took out the tea leaves and cups and placed them on the stone platform.
The fire in the cedar was very strong, and the water boiled in a moment.
After carrying the copper pot, Li Ye began to warm the pot, wash the tea, and wash the cups. Before the aroma dissipated, he poured steaming tea for his husband and himself.
The Tianshan Mountains are already very cool in autumn, and it is indeed a rare treat to drink a cup of hot tea.
After taking the teacup, the gentleman held the teacup, blew on it, and took a brief sip. The teacher said that when you take your first sip of tea, you must not be in a hurry.
Otherwise, it will be like chewing peonies. Firstly, you will lose the taste of the tea, and secondly, you will hurt your mouth by holding too much soup.
Li Ye nodded and drank tea like this since the first day he learned tea ceremony from his husband.
After a cup of tea, Mr. Li Ye looked at Li Ye and said, "I have reached the third level of cultivating the Formless Dharmakaya. How do you feel?"
When Li Ye heard this, he rolled up his sleeves and saw that his little arm was already glowing with a faint metallic luster. He took out the knife on his body and gently cut it. He saw that the skin was not broken and the blood was not flowing. There was only a clear line. Light white marks.
With his mouth wide open, he stared blankly at Mr.
"Yes, it is already difficult to be hurt by external objects. When you get to the end of your practice, even the Buddhist Vajra Indestructible Body will not be as good as yours." The gentleman nodded approvingly.
Picking up the copper pot and adding hot water to the purple clay pot, Li Ye was puzzled and said, "Sir, why is the "Shadowless Dharmakaya" higher than the Buddhist Vajra Indestructible Body?"
The teacher picked up the purple clay pot, added tea seeds to the cups of the two of them, and said softly: "The Vajra is indestructible. It just emphasizes that it is extremely strong and strong, and the physical body is indestructible; but "The Formless Dharmakaya" is instant. The Vajra Indestructible Body is both strong and extremely soft. Once you practice it later, you can become extremely strong and extremely soft. This is the most difficult technique to practice."
"Because of this reason, even the monks in Fangcun Mountain are very few who can achieve it. You should practice hard and strive for perfection in practice. I am looking forward to what it will be like when you achieve perfection in practice."
Picking up the tea cup, Li Ye nodded and said, "Sir, don't worry, I will definitely succeed in my practice."
The teacher looked at him and said: "You have spent so much effort, and my teacher has found a lot of medicinal materials for you, but these are still foreign things, and in the end you still have to rely on your own efforts."
"Even if you practice to the fifth level, if you don't go to Fangcun Mountain to find the next four levels of skills, you will still give up halfway. You must remember this." Mr. continued.
Li Ye nodded and said: "Sir, don't worry, I must go to Fangcun Mountain. No matter how difficult it is, I will find the four-level technique behind it."
"That's great! Let's have some tea." The gentleman smiled lightly.
